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IN THIS ISSUE OF THE
CANADIAN SOCIAL RESEARCH NEWSLETTER:

Canadian content

1. What If Charities
Go Silent? (Trish Hennessy, Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives) - October
13
2. Towards A More Equal Canada (Broadbent Institute) - October 9
3. [British Columbia] A Public System of Integrated Early Care and Learning
: $10 a Day Care a Key to Ending Family Poverty (Coalition of Child Care
Advocates of BC) - October 4
4. Latest Media and Policy News: 12 Oct 2012 (By Jennefer Laidley, Income Security
Advocacy Centre)
5. Invest New Brunswick : Is it really investing in a new perspective?
(New Brunswick Common Front for Social Justice Inc.) - October 2012
6. A Living Wage As a Human Right (Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives)
- October 4
7. Youth Employment and Un(der) Employment in Canada : More Than a Temporary
Problem? (Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives) - October 4
8 .Equal Time : Margaret Somerville on abortion and the politics of female
feticide
9. UPDATE on the National Council of Welfare website archive - October 14
10. What's New in The Daily [Statistics Canada]:
--- Labour productivity in the business sector: Historical revision, 1981
to the second quarter 2012 - October 12
--- Adult correctional services, 2010/2011 - October 11
--- Adult correctional statistics in Canada, 2010/2011 - October 11
--- Youth correctional services, 2010/2011 - October 11
--- Youth correctional statistics in Canada, 2010/2011 - October 11
--- Criminal court statistics, 2010/2011 - October 9
11. What's new from the Childcare Resource and Research Unit

1.
What If Charities Go Silent?
- October
13
(Trish Hennessy, Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives)

What
If Charities Go Silent?http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/trish-hennessey/charity-canada_b_1963018.html
By Trish Hennessy (Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives)
October 13, 2012
How fares freedom of expression
in Canada? As part of Non-Speak
Week, PEN Canada blogs on the health
of that most fundamental of freedoms.
While you're reading this, nearly
two million employees are busy trying
to make our world a little bit better
through their work at Canada's more
than eighty thousand registered
charitable organizations. Some of
these organizations are household
names. When natural disaster strikes,
for instance, many Canadians turn
to charities like the Canadian Red
Cross, CARE, Oxfam, or UNICEF. Other
lesser known charities reflect the
full spectrum of our public priorities:
education, environmental protection,
health care, children's well-being,
youth engagement, seniors' supports,
poverty reduction, help for the
homeless, and more.
(...)
What does it say about our democracy
when corporations can devote endless
resources lobbying to change policy
in their own interest while charities
that work on behalf of the public
interest risk losing their voice?
Put it another way: What happens
to our democracy when the voices
of Canada's charitable organizations,
the social conscience of this country,
go silent?

Canadians
can challenge income inequality:
new Broadbent Institute paperhttp://www.broadbentinstitute.ca/en/blog/canadians-can-challenge-income-inequality-new-broadbent-institute-paper
October 8, 2012
News Release
By Mike Fancie
OTTAWALaunching the next phase
of its Equality Project, the Broadbent
Institute has released a new discussion
paper, Towards a More Equal
Canada, which analyses the
causes of, and proposes solutions
to, income inequality. The paper
follows the springtime publication
of a Broadbent Institute-commissioned
Environics poll on income inequality
that shows Canadians overwhelmingly
support taking action to alleviate
our growing inequality problem.

Source:
Broadbent Institutehttp://www.broadbentinstitute.ca/The Broadbent Institute seeks
to equip the next generation of
progressive thinkers and activists
with the ideas and tools they need
to build a more progressive Canada.

NOTE:
James Mulvale of Basic Income
Canada Network Canada [ http://biencanada.ca/
] points out in an email that guaranteed
annual income is discussed on page
21 of the Broadbent Institute report,
as follows:

"We should
consider the idea of a guaranteed
minimum income. Tom Kent, the late
social policy giant who was the
architect behind the Pearson-era
reforms that shaped modern Canada,
left behind a plea to look at such
an approach. Kent argued that we
should design a system to ensure
a reasonable level of income for
every Canadian, building on the
basic income guarantee we already
provide to seniors. Support would
be given in the form of regular
payments to those with very low
incomes, phased out with rising
income reported via tax returns.
He believed that the federal economies
of scale would provide considerable
efficiencies and reduce federal/provincial
overlap and friction as provinces
would focus on services (Kent 2011).
Kents blueprints find supporters
and detractors among both conservatives
and progressives. There are significant
issues of cost to be considered,
as well as how to provide income
support without discouraging work.
Perhaps we could begin by providing
a guaranteed income to persons with
disabilities, including persons
who are able to work but cannot
do so on a continuing full-time
basis."

Related
links:

What
kind of Canada do we want?http://www.thestar.com/opinion/editorialopinion/article/1267780
October 8, 2012
By Ed Broadbent
Canada is in the process of destroying
decades of progress. We are developing
limited, American-style access to
social programs, our employment insurance
system is being slowly starved to
death, tuition fees are skyrocketing
 all in the name of austerity.
Is this the
kind of Canada we want to leave to
future generations?

Income
Inequality In Canada: Ed Broadbent
Wants To Give Tories 'A Good Shake'http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2012/10/09/income-inequality-canada-ed-broadbent_n_1949906.html
October 9, 2012
By Rachel Mendleson
Ed Broadbent has a novel idea for
convincing Prime Minister Stephen
Harper and other Conservative politicians
to care about income inequality. I
would like to take them all and give
them a good shake, and take them back
to talk to their parents or grandparents,
he said. As
he envisions it, these heart-to-hearts
would remind them of the fact that
politicians of all stripes 
including Conservatives  had
a hand in helping to create Canadas
social welfare state. (...)
Raising the profile
of Canadas growing rich-poor
divide is top of mind for the former
NDP leader and founder of the left-leaning
Broadbent Institute, which is dedicated
in large part to tackling rising income
inequality. Speaking to The Huffington
Post Canada in advance of the release
of the think-tanks latest report
on the growing gap, Towards
A More Equal Canada, Broadbent
explained why income inequality affects
us all.

3. [British
Columbia] A
Public System of Integrated
Early Care and Learning :
$10 a Day Care a Key to Ending
Family Poverty - October
4
(Coalition of Child Care Advocates
of BC)

A Public
System of Integrated Early Care
and Learning:
$10 a Day Care a Key to Ending Family
Poverty (PDF - 1MB, 4 pages)http://www.cccabc.bc.ca/plan/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/CCCABC_ECEBC_Factsheet4.pdf
Fact Sheet No. 4
PDF file date : October 4, 2012
In 2011, the Coalition of Child
Care Advocates and the Early Childhood
Educators of BC released a Community
Plan for a Public System of Integrated
Early Care and Learning [ http://www.cccabc.bc.ca/plan/
] . The Plan offers a concrete,
innovative made in BC
solution to the child care crisis
facing families with young children.
If and when government puts the
Plan in place, child care will cost
families $10 a day for a full-time
program, $7 a day for part-time,
and no user fee for families with
annual incomes under $40,000.

* Carol
Goar on the importance of Community
Start-Up and efforts to save it
* NOW article says to watch for sleight-of-hand
(Ed: see quote from yours truly)
* Sault Ste. Maries mayor says
the pain of the cuts will dwarf any
savings
* More outrage from Council in the
Soo
* The cuts
will hit First Nations hard* More people
will be homeless in Hastings, Prince
Edward, and Lennox & Addington
* Poverty will get worse with CSUMB
cut, says CUPE - town hall in Sudbury
The cuts - and other austerity measures
- are like boiling frog syndrome

Social
Assistance Review

* Op-Ed:
Its time to build dignity into
social assistance
* Heres the full Five Tests
for the Social Assistance Review -
report expected late next week
* Martin Regg Cohn's take on the review* No double-dipping!
Even if you paid into EI! And youre
disabled! And have a new baby!

New
Reports and other Cool Stuff

* The
CCPAs Living Wage conference
is today in Toronto - and ISAC was
pleased to co-sponsor. Theyve
posted a toolkit and will be updating
with new resources soon.
* An upcoming Community Forum 
Retiring on a Low Income: Presentation
of New Tools that will result in better
planning and advice

Ontario
Issues

* Ontario
211 workers say many Ontarians cant
afford groceries
* Looks like the 25 in 5 Network for
Poverty Reduction might be coming
back
* From the Workers Action Centre:
Ontario needs a minimum wage people
can live on!

Ontario
Politics

* What
Tim Hudak would do if he were preem
* Some PC MPPs raise the abortion
issue; the Sun calls it a crazed
political death wish

Around
the Province

* Affordable
homes saved in Toronto
* Government screwups dog senior in
London with mental illness

Across
the Country

* From
Alberta  why we can do better
than poverty reduction

National

* Broadbent
Institute makes income inequality
its first focus
* Are you outraged? You ought to be
* Five economic trends to watch 
on food, gas, natural gas, housing,
and interest rates
* Tips from advocates on finding a
good rental apartment

Federal
Issues

* The
Current covers temporary foreign worker
laws, and their impacts
* New federal program promises $30
million to spur 1600 jobs for people
with disabilities
* But, disability advocate says theres
a better way
* Feds spend on ads while cutting
programs
* Feds outline new access-to-information
system
* Kevin Page wins major concessions
in fight to get budget information

International

* People
in Europe are increasingly abandoning
their babies as economic prospects
dim
* Creating living-wage jobs in the
USA
* Protests at Walmart
* Inequality in American cities 
how does it compare to other countries?
* Norway to double carbon tax on oil
industry
* UKs Work and Pension Secretary
thinks welfare needs a cultural
shift to end reliance
on benefits  meaning a
10 billion BP cut to welfare budget

Jennefer
Laidley is with the Income Security
Advocacy Centre (ISAC) in Toronto.
Jennefer scans the electronic media
for links to items of interest for
social researchers and advocates in
Toronto, and she also covers (to a
lesser extent) the provincial, national
and international scenes.

Each
week, she sends out Latest Media
and Policy News, the above
a media scan of topical articles and
news releases via email bulletin

5.
Invest New Brunswick : Is it
really investing in a new perspective?-
October 4
(New Brunswick Common Front
for Social Justice Inc.)

NOTA
: La version française suit
l'anglais ci-dessous.

From
the
New Brunswick Common Front for Social
Justice Inc. (CFSJ):

Invest
New Brunswick : Is it really investing
in a new perspective? (PDF
- 512K, 12 pages)http://www.frontnb.ca/uploads/file/Invest%20NB-%20Analysis-%20Final_Modified.pdf
October 2012
BackgrounderNOTE : Appendix A of this PDF file
is the Sept. 20 (2011) provincial
government news release announcing
the launch of Invest NB.
(...)
On September 20, 2011...David Alward
opened a bottle of champagne to celebrate
the new Crown Corporation called Invest
NB.  New Brunswick needs
a re-energized approach to economic
development and investment attraction,
Alward said. To that end,
Invest NB has a fresh focus on identifying
and aggressively pursuing businesses
that will succeed in our provinces
and create jobs. The business plan
framework sets out the path Invest
NB is taking.

Therefore,
Invest NB is another new-Brunswick
Government tool to manage the economy
of the province. Yet, the tool is
different because fully managed by
people
from the world of business. (...)
We arrive at the conclusion that the
promises made at the launch of the
Crown Corporation Invest NB did not
come true.

6.
A Living Wage As a Human Right
- October 5
(Canadian Centre for Policy
Alternatives)

From
the
Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives:

A Living Wage As a Human Right
(PDF - 432K, 18 pages)http://www.policyalternatives.ca/sites/default/files/uploads/publications/Ontario%20Office/2012/10/Living%20Wage%20as%20a%20Human%20Right.pdfBy
Mary Cornish
October 5, 2012
In Canada, many workers do not earn
a living wage because of discrimination.
Women workers and those who are racialized,
immigrant, Aboriginal, living with
disabilities or similarly disadvantaged
are all segregated into low wage job
ghettoestheir work systemically
devalued. Governments and employers
need to deliver more equitable compensation
incomes for vulnerable workers. This
paper explores how we can close discriminatory
pay gaps, so that this basic human
right  the right to work and
to earn pay free of discrimination
 is realized for Canadas
low-paid workers.

Living
Wage for Families
http://livingwageforfamilies.ca/
The Living Wage for Families Campaign
is hosted by First Call:BC Child
and Youth Advocacy Coalition [
http://www.firstcallbc.org/
] and is guided by an Advisory Committee
of representatives from community
organizations and other partners and
supporters in Metro Vancouver.

7.
Youth Employment and Un(der)
Employment in Canada : More
Than a Temporary Problem?
- October 4
(Canadian Centre for Policy
Alternatives)

Youth
Employment and Un(der) Employment
in Canada:
More Than a Temporary Problem?
(PDF - 431K, 6 pages)http://www.policyalternatives.ca/sites/default/files/uploads/publications/National%20Office/2012/10/Youth%20Unemployment.pdfBy
Karen Foster
October 4, 2012
This report looks at trends in youth
employment, and finds that one of
the most troubling narratives to emerge
from the economic downturn of 200708
revolved around the effect of recessed
global and local economies on young
workers. According to the report,
young workers are more likely to be
unemployed or precariously employed
in non-permanent jobsand regardless
of whether they have post-secondary
qualifications, these young workers
will likely endure the negative effects
of un- and underemployment for years
to come.

8.
Equal Time : Margaret
Somerville on abortion and the
politics of female feticide

Abortion
and sex-selective pregnancy termination

Last
week's Canadian Social Research Newsletter
[ http://goo.gl/T0WZT
] included a video dig by 22 Minutes'
Dakey Dunn directed at federal Status
of Women Minister Rona Ambrose for
voting in favour of Motion 312 (to
reopen the abortion debate) along
with an overview of major dates in
the abortion controversy in Canada
by Trish Hennessy of the Canadian
Centre for Policy Alternatives.

Within
hours of the newsletter's dissemination
last Sunday, I received an email from
a subscriber who is a senior researcher
in a Canadian university. He said
that he felt I had a "one-sided
approach to abortion-related information."

"This
procedure", he pointed out, "kills
over 100,000 developing human beings
a year in Canada (and this, ironically,
in a country that desperately wants
and needs immigration). You need to
give equal time to those who believe
(as the Supreme Court has argued)
that the state has a legitimate right
in the abortion question."

It is
in the spirit of fairness and balance
that I therefore present links suggested
by my email critic to two pro-life
articles by Margaret Somerville, founding
director of the Centre for Medicine,
Ethics and Law at McGill University.

Lets
have the abortion debatehttp://www.ottawacitizen.com/news/have+abortion+debate/7135511/story.html
By Margaret Somerville, August 23,
2012
More than 100,000 abortions are performed
in Canada each year. I suggest that
we need to recover our sense of amazement,
wonder and awe at the creation of
new human life and that an in depth
discussion about what our law on abortion
should be might help us in this regard.

The
preposterous politics of female feticidehttp://goo.gl/xfPXm
By Margaret Somerville
September 28, 2012
Conservative MP Stephen Woodworths
motion to set up an all-party parliamentary
committee to discuss when an unborn
child becomes a human being was voted
down 203-91 this week. But the fact
that 30 per cent of the MPs who voted
supported the private members
motion is a victory in defeat for
Mr. Woodworth on two fronts. (...)
First, most people had expected a
far greater rate of rejection and
never anticipated that, despite Prime
Minister Stephen Harpers opposition
to it, 10 cabinet members, including
Status of Women Minister Rona Ambrose,
would back the motion. Second, the
pro-choice mantra that there
is nothing to discuss about
abortion and that theres a consensus
in Canada with respect to the current
status quo of no legal restrictions
on abortion at any point in gestation
were both shown to be false by the
heated discussion, both inside and
outside Parliament, that Mr. Woodworths
motion generated.
So where do we go from here?
Another motion, this one from B.C.
Conservative MP Mark Warawa : That
the House condemn discrimination against
females occurring through sex-selective
pregnancy termination.
(...)
My prediction is, they (Members of
Parliament) might find theyve
jumped out of the frying pan of Mr.
Woodworths Motion 312 into the
fire of Mr. Warawas Motion 408
[ http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2012/09/27/mark-warawa-motion-408-abortion_n_1920769.html
].

I don't
remember exactly when I first started
supporting women's right to choose
what happens to their body - probably
back in my university days in the
late 1960s and early 70s in the middle
of that whole debate about equality,
rights and freedoms - but I continue
to support that cause today, within
acceptable medical protocols and in
conjunction with a school program
of sex education and family planning.
I'm only human, however, and there
are times when I pause to dwell upon
the lost potential in human achievement.
I recently read an opinion column
in the St.Catharines Standard that
sums up my dual view on the whole
abortion debate.
Here's an excerpt:

"Look,
Im not going to pretend I
have some easy, comfortable answer
to the abortion question. There
is nothing easy nor comfortable
about it. I quite agree with Christopher
Hitchens who once said its
impossible not to regard a fetus
as a candidate member of the species.
I also agree with Sam Harris who
correctly points out that a mass
of cells with no nervous system
and no sentience, isnt a person."

As a
rule, I try not to push my views on
others in my web site and newsletter,
except with respect to social justice
and progressive social policy. I'm
aware that there are *some* topics
- "800-lb gorillas in the room",
such as the war on drugs, abortion,
euthanasia and the death penalty,
to mention but a few - that can polarize
a room full of otherwise like-minded
people in a heartbeat. I decided long
ago to utilize my discretionary time
searching out and sharing online social
research resources vs engaging in
debates about those above-noted
factious topics and others. I'll
try to stick to that decision and
that focus in the future.

If you
have any opinions (pro or con)
that you wish to share with the world
on the subject of abortions or other
controversial topics, please seek
out a more appropriate online forum.
This site and newsletter will stick
to the long-term objcetive : to provide
a comprehensive, current and balanced
collection of links to Canadian social
program information for use by those
who formulate Canadian social policies
and by those who study and critique
them.

9.
UPDATE on the National Council
of Welfare website archive
- October 14

UPDATE
on the
National Council of Welfare (NCW)
website archive
October 14:

Argh.
It's probably just me being foolish
thinking that the National Council
of Welfare's website would be transferred
seamlessly and quickly to its new
permanent home in the Government of
Canada Web Archive as soon as the
Council's live site was shut down
at the end of September. That transfer
hasn't happened yet, although the
link to the archived version of the
Council's home page was sent to me
by someone at Library & Archives
(LAC) Canada late last week.
Here it is:http://epe.lac-bac.gc.ca/100/205/301/ncw-cnb/2012-09-27/www.ncw.gc.ca/h.4m.2_40-eng.jsp@lang=eng.htm
[SPOILER : You can't access most of
the Council's reports because the
search feature doesn't work in the
archive copy.]

The
above link will take you to a mirror
copy of the Council's home page, where
you can click on the functional navigational
aids in the left margin of the page
to go to different sections of the
site, including links to a limited
number of publications (under "Communities").
What isn't
yet working (as at October 14) is
the search feature on the Research
and Publications page.
Because the site has no "Browse
Reports" feature (i.e., a static
page with a list of all online reports
with their respective links), users
must use the search feature to access
any reports except for those in the
Communities section, as noted above.
And that search feature is kaput...

The
Bottom line:

TAKE
A DEEP BREATH, Gilles
and fellow historians and supporters
of Open Government...
The contact person at Library &Archives
Canada pointed out in her reply to
my email on Friday that the Council's
datasets would soon all be uploaded
to the Govt of Canada Web Archive
website, and that researchers would
soon be able to access all of the
Council's online reports more easily.
Just before the weekend, I sent her
an alert re. the search feature issue,
and I'm hoping that things will get
ironed out in the near future. I'll
be updating this page and my NCW Links
page as soon as that search feature
on the NCW site archive is functional.

If you
find an interesting report in the
above publications list, select its
title using your mouse, then go to
the Publications Canada website [
http://www.publications.gc.ca/
]to search
whether that title is available for
download.

October
12, 2012Labour productivity in the business
sector: Historical revision, 1981
to the second quarter 2012http://www.statcan.gc.ca/daily-quotidien/121012/dq121012a-eng.htm
The implementation of revised international
System of National Accounts economic
accounting standards resulted in a
slight downward revision to Canada's
average annual growth in business
sector labour productivity over the
period 1981 to the second quarter
of 2012.

October
11, 2012Adult correctional services,
2010/2011http://www.statcan.gc.ca/daily-quotidien/121011/dq121011c-eng.htmOn any given day in 2010/2011,
there were about 38,000 adults in
Canada's prisons. This was nearly
900 more than the year before, resulting
in a 0.9% increase in the rate of
incarceration per 100,000 adults.

Related
link:

Adult
correctional statistics in Canada,
2010/2011http://www.statcan.gc.ca/pub/85-002-x/2012001/article/11715-eng.htm
By Mia DauvergneTable of contents:
* Rate of adults in the correctional
system declines slightly in 2010/2011
* Quebec reports lowest rate of adults
in correctional services
* Canadas incarceration rate
increases slightly in 2010/2011
* Manitoba reports highest incarceration
rate among the provinces
* Remand rate decreases for the first
time in more than a decade
* Most adults in sentenced provincial
or territorial custody for non-violent
offences
* Aboriginal people continue to be
over-represented in custody
* Adults in custody in Saskatchewan
have an average of four out of six
rehabilitative needs
* Most adults under community supervision
are on probation
* One in ten adults under community
supervision on a conditional sentence
* Parole rate drops steadily since
mid-1990s
* Summary

October
11, 2012Youth correctional services,
2010/2011http://www.statcan.gc.ca/daily-quotidien/121011/dq121011d-eng.htm
On any given day in 2010/2011, there
were about 14,800 young people aged
12 to 17 under the supervision of
Canada's correctional system. Of these,
just over 13,300 (90%) were under
supervision in the community, usually
on probation. The remaining 1,500
(10%) were in custody.

Related
link:

Youth
correctional statistics in Canada,
2010/2011
http://www.statcan.gc.ca/pub/85-002-x/2012001/article/11716-eng.htm
By Christopher MunchTable of contents:
* Rate of youth under correctional
supervision decreases in 2010/2011
* British Columbia reports lowest
rate of youth in the correctional
system
* Rates for youth admitted to correctional
services increase with age
* Aboriginal youth over-represented
in the correctional system
* Youth incarceration rate declines
for the third year in a row
* Crimes committed by youth admitted
to sentenced custody tend to be non-violent
* Youth in remand outnumber those
in sentenced custody for the fourth
year in a row
* Most youth under community supervision
are on probation
* Summary

Consideration
of reports submitted by States parties
under article 44 of the Convention.
Concluding observations: Canada http://www.childcarecanada.org/documents/research-policy-practice/12/10/consideration-reports-submitted-states-parties-under-articl
10 Oct 2012 | Canada
Concluding observations on Canada
from the UN Committee on the Rights
of the Child states that "early
childhood care and education continues
to be inadequate for children under
four years of age. Furthermore, the
Committee is concerned that the majority
of early childhood care and education
services in the State party are provided
by private, profit-driven institutions,
resulting in such services being unaffordable
for most families".

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12.
Poverty Dispatch: U.S. media
coverage of social issues
and programs
(Institute for Research on
Poverty - University of Wisconsin-Madison)

Poverty Dispatch
(U.S.) http://www.irp.wisc.edu/dispatch
The Poverty Dispatch is a daily
scan of U.S. web-based news items
dealing with topics such as poverty,
welfare reform, child welfare, education,
health, hunger, Medicare and Medicaid,
etc.. The Dispatch is distributed
by the Institute for Research on
Poverty, at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
News articles from online newspapers
are posted here in a number of general
categories, and are tagged with
more specific keywords relevant
to each article.

Hunger
in Times of Land, Water, and Energy
Pressures (PDF - 268K, 3 pages)http://www.ifpri.org/sites/default/files/pressrel20121011.pdf
October 11, 2012
Press release
Washington, D.C.Unsustainable
use of land, water, and energy is
threatening the food security of the
poorest and most vulnerable around
the world, according to the 2012 Global
Hunger Index, released for the seventh
year by the International Food Policy
Research Institute (IFPRI), Welthungerhilfe,
and Concern Worldwide. According to
the 2012 Index, The Challenge of Hunger:
Ensuring Sustainable Food Security
under Land, Water, and Energy Stresses,
hunger on a global scale remains serious
with 20 countries having levels of
hunger that are alarming
or extremely alarming.

2012
Global Hunger Index - main pagehttp://www.ifpri.org/publication/2012-global-hunger-index
- includes links to country reports
for all participating countries
- also includes links to an interactive
version of the report, a related brief,
media materials, maps, data, video
and more

Source:
International Food Policy Research
Institute (IFPRI) http://www.ifpri.org/
The International Food Policy Research
Institute (IFPRI) seeks sustainable
solutions for ending hunger and poverty.
IFPRI is one of 15 centers supported
by the Consultative Group on International
Agricultural Research (CGIAR)
[ http://www.cgiar.org/
], an alliance of 64 governments,
private foundations, and international
and regional organizations

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every child enjoys all of the human
rights promised by the United Nations,
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is the United Nations Convention
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October 2012 - CRINMAIL 1297http://www.crin.org/email/crinmail_detail_popup.asp?crinmailID=4431
In this issue:
Latest news and reports
- Shunning the rights of persons with
mental disabilities
- Girl advocate shot for opposing
Taliban
- From "protection" to prohibition
- Discrimination in the school head's
office
- Poor children at risk of armed recruitment
- Starting equality from a young age
- Violence against children in detention
- Campaigning against the death penalty
Children's Rights Wiki: Spotlight
on Jamaica
Upcoming events
Employment
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Option
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(so you must click on each link to
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every child enjoys all of the human
rights promised by the United Nations,
regional organisations, and national
governments alike. (...) Our inspiration
is the United Nations Convention on
the Rights of the Child (CRC), which
we use to bring children's rights
to the top of the international agenda.
We launch advocacy campaigns, lead
international children's rights coalitions,
and strive to make existing human
rights enforcement mechanisms accessible
for all. More than 2,100 organisations
in 150 countries rely on CRIN's publications,
research and information.

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